Network Rail on track for Hatfield & Stainforth line re-opening

Tuesday 2 Jul 2013

Network Rail on track for Hatfield & Stainforth line re-opening

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Passengers will be able to get a train through Hatfield & Stainforth on Monday 8 July. Work to restore the line is progressing as planned with engineers working around the clock to hand back the railway on time. Freight and passenger trains will recommence service through Hatfield & Stainforth from 5am.

Northern Rail will run an hourly service between Doncaster and Goole, and Doncaster and Scunthorpe. Rail replacement buses will continue to run to support the Northern train services until Monday 29 July; however, these buses will be retimed so passengers are advised to check the interim timetables.

First TransPennine Express will be running the full timetable which operated before the colliery landslip from Monday 8 July. Services will run between Cleethorpes and Doncaster/Sheffield/Manchester Airport and between Hull/Brough/Selby and Leeds/Manchester from Monday 8 July.

For more details please visit northernrail.org and tpexpress.co.uk

Freight services will be reintroduced to the Hatfield route from 8 July.

Media interviews
A spokesman for Network Rail and Dean Lancaster, station manager for First TransPennine Express will be available for interview between 08.30 and 09.30 on Monday at Scunthorpe station.
Stuart Rands, client and stakeholder manager at Northern Rail will be available for interview by telephone only. Please contact via Joselyn Rankin - 01904 568652

Notes to editors

Northern Rail has 182 drivers who potentially operate the route – FTPE has 15, therefore the staged introduction of Northern services is to allow route learning of drivers whose route knowledge has lapsed during the period of disruption.

First train through the area damaged by the spoil heap slip is a Freightliner freight train running between Guide Bridge and Roxby which will pass Hatfield at around 05.15
The first passenger service is Northern Rail's 05.20 Hull to Sheffield train, stopping at Hatfield & Stainforth at 06.01. The first the other way is Northern 05.29 Beverley to Sheffield stopping at 06.22
The first express service through site is First TransPennine Express 05.18 Cleethorpes to Manchester Airport at 06.24.

Contact information

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